[XML-SIG] Newbie XML/SAX Parsing questions

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:59:11AM -0400,
 Debajit Adhikary <debajit at debajit.com> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> I'm new to Python, and am writing an XML parser for RSS feeds. 

Why reinventing the wheel?

http://feedparser.org/

> * How can I parse entity references like in the following code:
> 
> <pre>
>    &gt;abc&lt;
> </pre>

It's the parser's job, not yours.